All Quotes

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.
‐‐ Roger Mudd

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
‐‐ Saoirse Ronan

The written word is everything.
‐‐ John Drinkwater

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.
‐‐ Terence Fisher

The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
‐‐ Randy Wayne White

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.
‐‐ Hooman Majd

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
‐‐ Greg Boyle

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
‐‐ Anne Sullivan

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
‐‐ George A. Moore

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
‐‐ Democritus

The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
‐‐ Anna Lindh

The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

'The X Factor' seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it's not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can't imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on 'The X Factor.'
‐‐ Jools Holland

'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
‐‐ Fleur East

'The X-Files,' as I recall, we didn't know really what we were until the middle of the first year. You know, so if we'd been cancelled, you get cancelled before you mature into what it is you can actually be, which is too bad.
‐‐ David Duchovny

'The X-Files' from the beginning was a very visual show, and with Bob Mandel directing the pilot and Dan Sackheim being involved in the production of the pilot and directing the first episode, they brought a visual style to it that was elaborated on by so many good directors.
‐‐ Chris Carter

'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.
‐‐ Chris Carter

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
‐‐ Nate Holland

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360 as on high-end PCs that cost six times as much. It's easy to navigate and has lots of useful secondary features - the ability to play digital video, stream MP3s, and so on.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.
‐‐ John Carmack

The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner

The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
‐‐ Russell Smith

The Yahoo story is still being written.
‐‐ Jerry Yang

The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
‐‐ Rachel Dratch

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.
‐‐ Keith Hernandez

The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
‐‐ Jules Verne

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.
‐‐ Dave Winfield

The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

The Yas Marina circuit is really pretty impressive. The track itself has some quite slow corners and not a great deal of overtaking opportunities, but it seems to combine a road course with a circuit course.
‐‐ Alexander Rossi

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
‐‐ Charles Sturt

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
‐‐ Kelly Miller

The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
‐‐ Nostradamus

The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
‐‐ Nostradamus

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
‐‐ James Buchan

The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
‐‐ Baba Kalyani

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.
‐‐ Lev Grossman

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City.
‐‐ Jason Wiles

The year has 365 days, and I want each and every one of them to be exciting.
‐‐ Mario Testino

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
‐‐ Bar Refaeli

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
‐‐ Tom Hanks